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Trunk Club
Grousbeck, I; Kissick, RCase SGSB-E458-EEntrepreneurshipThe Trunk Club case begins with a description of the company’s business model and the path that led the main protagonist, Brian Spaly, to the CEO post. Four vignettes compose the main body of the case. The first vignette outlines a series of challenges faced by Spaly during his first ninety days running the business, most notably a situation in which Spaly’s top salesperson threatens to leave with the company’s top five sales reps to start a co...Starting at €8.20
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Stripe: Increasing the GDP of the Internet - Teaching Note
Siegel, R; Kissick, RTeaching Note SGSB-E601TN-EEntrepreneurshipIn 2009, brothers Patrick and John Collison began working on a start-up called Stripe that made it simple for companies to send and receive money around the world. By the end of 2016, Stripe had expanded far beyond an online payment mechanism. Fueled by a belief that the Internet and developers would drive rapid economic growth across the world, Stripe created tools for social commerce and online marketplaces, as well as products to facilitate ...Starting at €0.00
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Stripe: Increasing the GDP of the Internet
Siegel, R; Kissick, RCase SGSB-E601-EEntrepreneurshipIn 2009, brothers Patrick and John Collison began working on a start-up called Stripe that made it simple for companies to send and receive money around the world. By the end of 2016, Stripe had expanded far beyond an online payment mechanism. Fueled by a belief that the Internet and developers would drive rapid economic growth across the world, Stripe created tools for social commerce and online marketplaces, as well as products to facilitate ...Starting at €8.20
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Trunk Club - Teaching Note
Grousbeck, I; Kissick, RTeaching Note SGSB-E458TN-EEntrepreneurshipThe Trunk Club case begins with a description of the company’s business model and the path that led the main protagonist, Brian Spaly, to the CEO post. Four vignettes compose the main body of the case. The first vignette outlines a series of challenges faced by Spaly during his first ninety days running the business, most notably a situation in which Spaly’s top salesperson threatens to leave with the company’s top five sales reps to start a co...Starting at €0.00
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Business Talent Group: Growing the Market for Independent Business Talent
Chess, R; Kissick, RCase SGSB-E621-EEntrepreneurshipIn 2007, Jody Greenstone Miller founded Business Talent Group (BTG), a company that connected top independent professionals, including consultants and executives, with global companies for project-based work at a lower cost and with more precision than traditional consulting. From BTG’s inception, Miller and cofounder Amelia Warren Tyagi believed that the way people work—and the way companies use talent—was changing for several reasons. High-en...Starting at €8.20
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Business Talent Group: Growing the Market for Independent Business Talent - Teaching note
Chess, R; Kissick, RTeaching Note SGSB-E621TN-EEntrepreneurshipIn 2007, Jody Greenstone Miller founded Business Talent Group (BTG), a company that connected top independent professionals, including consultants and executives, with global companies for project-based work at a lower cost and with more precision than traditional consulting. From BTG’s inception, Miller and cofounder Amelia Warren Tyagi believed that the way people work—and the way companies use talent—was changing for several reasons. High-en...Starting at €0.00
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Axel Springer in 2016: From Transformation to Acceleration - Teaching Note
Burgelman, R; Siegel, R; Kissick, RTeaching Note SGSB-E610TN-EEntrepreneurshipAs of 2016, Mathias Döpfner, chief executive officer (CEO) of Axel Springer SE, had successfully transitioned the German publishing house through a major digital transformation in the world of journalism. Given the massive disruption that had occurred over the previous two decades with how people consumed news, this was no small feat. During this time, many newspapers, magazines, and journals failed to keep up with the rapidly changing industry...Starting at €0.00
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Axel Springer in 2016: From Transformation to Acceleration
Burgelman, R; Siegel, R; Kissick, RCase SGSB-E610-EEntrepreneurshipAs of 2016, Mathias Döpfner, chief executive officer (CEO) of Axel Springer SE, had successfully transitioned the German publishing house through a major digital transformation in the world of journalism. Given the massive disruption that had occurred over the previous two decades with how people consumed news, this was no small feat. During this time, many newspapers, magazines, and journals failed to keep up with the rapidly changing industry...Starting at €8.20
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Tenet Health
Chess, R; Kissick, RCase SGSB-E534-EEntrepreneurshipThis case focuses on major strategic challenges faced by Tenet Healthcare (Tenet), a U.S.-based health care provider, in 2014. It discusses major changes to the health care provider industry over the previous decade―customer, demographic, reimbursement, structural, technological, financing, and regulatory―and raises questions related to the strategic direction Tenet should pursue in response to these changes. The case emphasizes two primary dec...Starting at €8.20
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Convenient MD
Grousbekc, I, H; Kissick, RCase SGSB-E550-EEntrepreneurshipThe ConvenientMD case highlights the role of emotion and ambiguity in business interactions. ConvenientMD, led by co-CEOs Gareth Dickens and Max Puyanic, operated urgent care centers (UCCs) in the northeastern United States. UCCs are medical facilities that provide treatment for a variety of injuries and illnesses at a fraction of the cost of hospitals. The case, which examines ConvenientMD in its nascent and high-growth years, is divided into...Starting at €8.20